Last week I shared something personal and something I was way too hesitatnt to share. It was the fact that the ad-driven model that kept It's FOSS running for 14 years is breaking down, and that YOUR support is the most direct way to keep this going.The response was overwhelming and I cannot thank you enough to all the well wishers and supports. From what I see, so far 112 readers opted for the lifetime Plus membership. Several readers, even existing paid members, bought coffees (a metaphor for donation).Several readers wrote in to share how It's FOSS helped them make the switch to Linux, sometimes years ago, and that it finally felt like the right moment to "give back". Thank you 🙏There were a few concerns raised as well so let me answer them here for everyone."Will It's FOSS continue to publish? Will it survive?"Fair concern. Here is the thing: the 112 people who joined last week made a real difference. 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For students who canot pay, for someone who has just lost a job, for people who do not even earn $119 in an entire month. The $30 discount on lifetime membership will continue till 25th June. If you have been on the fence, this is the week to get off it. Our goal is to reach 200 lifetime member by the next week. Do help us please.Get Lifetime Membership, $30 OffNot ready for a lifetime commitment? A one-time donation helps too.Make a one-time donationThank you for 14 years. Let's make it 14 more.💡If you made a payment for the LIfetime membership and has not heard from me, please reach out to me (support@itsfoss.com) and share the transaction detail. I have manually enabled it for 97 people. Sent mail to 14 people to clear the confusion about email address. There is at least one Wise payment that has no email address associated and thus no way for me to know who sent it. Please send me an email on support@itsfoss if it was you and share the deatils of the transaction.📰 News That MatterLinux 7.1 does a lot for a feature release. The new NTFS driver is the main talking point here, but Intel FRED switching to on-by-default and a long-overdue Steam Deck OLED audio fix are worth knowing about too.Another new release this week is KDE Plasma 6.7. There are a few improvements here and there and the two vintage themes make a comeback.With Ubuntu, Fedora, and soon KDE all dropping X11, yserver is a strange but interesting counter-move, arriving as a new X11 server, written in Rust, assisted by Claude. It intentionally drops decades of cruft to focus on what modern desktops actually need.Session, the private messaging service that doesn't require a phone number, has managed to avoid getting shut down thanks to the community stepping up and donating the funds required to keep things running.A new open standard called DocLang wants to be the format AI pipelines actually need instead of fighting with PDFs and DOCX files that were designed for human eyes. This vendor-neutral working group has already released v0.6 of the specifications with more work already underway.In contrast, a compromised Fedora contributor account let an AI agent run loose across Bugzilla unsupervised, mass-reassigning bugs to the wrong person, closing reports it had no business closing with hallucinated LLM-generated comments.Commodore and Jolla have joined to create anti-doomscrolling flip smartphone. It uses Linux-based Sailfish OS. 🧠 What We’re Thinking AboutArch User Repository, the community contributed repo, suffered supply chain attack. Arch had to shut off new AUR registrations after three separate malware waves tore through the community repo in the span of a week. More than 1,500 AUR packages were hit. AUR helper Yay released a new version with some measures to spot malicious packages.A few lesson from this incident:It is always better to install packages from official repoistories your distro provides.If you are erelying on AUR, looking at the PKGBUILD is more important than ever.There is little end users like you and I can do in case of supply chain attacks. It is up to distributions to secure the users.Supply chain attacks are going to be a bigger problem for the open source ecosystem. No wonder IBM-Red Hat is coming up with a $5 billion project Lightwall for this purpose.Proton has launched Easy Switch for Business, a six-step migration tool that moves a company's emails, calendars, and contacts from Google Workspace to Proton Mail (partner link) seamlessly.🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials, and LearningsCachyOS swapped out Octopi for a homegrown Rust package manager called Shelly, and it looks like a useful upgrade. One window handles repos, AUR, AppImage, and Flathub together; search spans all four at once; and it just looks like something built in 2026.If that doesn't interest you, then we have a list of GTK themes that cater to a wide variety of tastes, ranging from the warm retro tones of Gruvbox to the macOS-inspired looks of WhiteSur and McMojave, and even a pitch-black option in Flat Remix for OLED screens.If you use GNOME, explore this list of GNOME Extensions. Perhaps you will find some good ones for your usecase.And here is the Dank Linux review I mentioned in the last newsletter but forgot to add the link.👷 AI, Homelab and Hardware CornerRaven Resonance has come up with something they call an ambient computer, which can easily be passed off as a smart glass. It is Linux-powered, not open source, and is called Raven Prism.There's also a Linux cyberdeck that was in the news recently that you might've missed.✨ Apps and Projects HighlightsUnhappy with KDE ditching X11 on Plasma? There's a fork that looks to preserve the experience while being init system agnostic.📽️ Videos for YouIf you ever feel the need to experience how bad Winslop is, you can create a bootable USB drive on Linux to get things going.Subscribe to It's FOSS YouTube Channel💡 Quick Handy TipIf you are using the Clipboard Indicator extension on GNOME, then you can go into its settings, and under the "Behaviour" tab, enable "Paste on select." This allows you to automatically paste the selected clipboard item directly into your active text field when you click on it in the clipboard menu.🎋 Fun in the FOSSverseCan you name all the popular file managers in this crossword?I am not complaining, are you? 🧐🗓️ Tech Trivia: Last time we talked about Alan Turing and his unfortunate passing, but what often gets overlooked is Tommy Flowers' contribution to building Colossus.Using 1,800 thermionic valves, his breakthrough dramatically shortened World War II while also proving that vacuum tubes could be reliable, forever changing modern computing history.He did get some recognition in 2023, when a blue plaque went up at Dollis Hill in London, the former Post Office research site where he built Colossus using mostly spare telephone parts.🧑‍🤝‍🧑 From the Community: A FOSSer is looking for pointers about an operating system called OpenIndiana. Have you ever used it?